Heather McKenzie

Heather McKenzie

Senior Editor

Heather McKenzie is a professional journalist with more than five years experience in the biopharmaceutical industry. Since joining BioSpace, she has written more than 200 features and breaking news articles with a particular focus in neuroscience and gene therapy. She has also traveled internationally to cover global biotech hubs such as Israel. In previous roles, she has covered current affairs, sports, education and politics. She previously spent eight years as a senior content producer for executive-level business conferences in the pharma/biotech, legal, energy and business strategy sectors. In her free time, Heather enjoys creative writing, spending time with family and playing with her energetic Russian Blue cat Roofus. She hails from Toronto and has also lived in Chicago and Chesapeake, Virginia. You can reach her at heather.mckenzie@biospace.com.

Alltrna, based in Cambridge, Mass. near its cousin Moderna, debuts as the first platform transfer RNA (tRNA) company.
The $80 million infusions from ATP will advance Marengo’s lead candidate, STAR0602, which aims to treat advanced and metastatic solid tumors.
The life sciences industry might just be filling a bit richer this week as two major venture capital firms announced the closing of new funds.
This first-of-its-kind collaboration will leverage the talent and innovation at companies such as Tessera Therapeutics to advance multiple candidates to human proof of concept.
In November 2019, Emory realized this experimental drug could have significant potential in respiratory viruses such as COVID-19.
Monday was a big day for LianBio, as the Shanghai-based company launched on the Nasdaq with an impressive $325 million initial public offering (IPO).
The acquisition of the medicines – which netted AstraZeneca $143 million in the geographies covered under the agreement – provides a significant boost to Covis’s respiratory portfolio.
The National Institutes of Health has removed a notice aimed at encouraging grant proposals from minority scientists from three separate institutes.
BlueSphere Bio aims to overcome challenges in the CAR T space with a precision approach to T cell therapy.
The osteoarthritis drug tanezumab gets permanent leave from the market. The decision of stopping production was due to negative feedback from the regulators.
Nuravax is developing an Alzheimer’s vaccine to induce therapeutically potent concentrations of antibodies against pathological proteins. Know more here.
Some fear potential side effects, and more just aren’t sure about the quality and risks associated with a vaccine developed in an unprecedented nine months.
The experimental drug, NTLA-2001, is being developed for the treatment of transthyretin (ATTR) amyloidosis.
More than $170 million was paid out for drugs that manufacturers voluntarily withdrew from the market after subsequent trials showed no benefit in overall survival.
June really broke out in 2012 when he saved the life of Emily Whitehead, a child suffering from relapsed acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), with CD19 CAR-T.